2004-09-30: GetURI 1.6 Released

I'm very pleased to announce the release of GetURI 1.6. Many new features have been put into to this quickly growing program, as have a few important bug fixes. Everyone already using GetURI is strongly encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. If you haven't yet tried GetURI, now is a great time to start!

What is GetURI?

GetURI is a program designed to extract URIs from ham and spam messages, mbox files, or lists of domains, and present them in a format designed to help classify domains for anti-spam efforts such as SURBL, although it has other uses, too. The included 'uricat' utility provides a simple way to extract URIs from virtually any text file, regardless of how they are encoded. With the help of the SpamAssassin libraries, GetURI attempts to ignore unclickable domains (i.e., poisoning attempts), follow redirects, and otherwise simulate the action of mail user agents (MUAs) as closely as possible.

Sample output: http://ry.ca/geturi/results.html

What's new?

Here are just a few of the most notable additions to GetURI 1.6:

- Support for SpamAssassin 2.6x has been re-introduced. Now 3.0 and 2.6x are officially supported

- By popular demand, support for processing mbox files has been added

- GetURI now does several forward lookup checks on domains, including SBL/XBL, IADB2/WADB, as well as checks on nameservers, to aid classification.

- More documentation is now included in the output, and the output format has been improved visually, to hopefully be somewhat more intuitive.

- It is now possible to specify a specific SURBL host to query, instead of the previous default of multi.surbl.org

- A potentially large memory leak was discovered in the handling of SA3.0 objects. Consequently, SA3.0 users should upgrade immediately to enjoy drastically reduced memory consumption.

Many more changes have been implemented; please see http://ry.ca/geturi/CHANGELOG for details

To fetch the new version of GetURI, please visit http://ry.ca/geturi/

As always, your feedback will help improve GetURI! Additional testers are always welcome.